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slowturtle

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    Comment #46279679

    By "Arabs who live in Israel" you mean the minority of Arabs who the Israelis didn't force out at gunpoint during Plan Dalet and the Nakba. The Israelis can rectify the situation a…

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    Comment #46279631

    Funny how you were originally arguing that Israel doesn't control the West Bank, but now you say "perhaps there would be more freedom and self-determination for the West Bank", cor…

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    Comment #46279424

    As for Gaza, it's ridiculous to say that Israel doesn't occupy it when even long before October 2023 the Israelis have imposed a complete blockade on the territory. They control th…

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    Comment #46279358

    The West Bank is administered by the Israeli Civil Administration which is a branch of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Even the Israeli High Court of Justice (Supreme Court) says …

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    Comment #46278956

    You’re ignoring 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and 2 million in the Gaza Strip who are forced to live under Israel’s military occupation and law but do …

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    Comment #46278856

    Israel is not a democracy. You cannot call yourself a democracy when 5 million people live under your military occupation and are subject to military law without any political repr…

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    Comment #45454070

    > Israel values the lives of their hostages above all else and will try to rescue them no matter the cost. Then why did the Israelis violate the ceasefire in March earlier this yea…

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    Comment #45453992

    Probably because Israel violated the ceasefire earlier this year (that was a sham from the beginning) that lasted from January to March. The first phase of the ceasefire saw an exc…

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    Comment #45453549

    UK surgeon Nick Maynard, a volunteer at Nasser Hospital, tells Good Morning Britain that he and other doctors tried to bring baby formula into Gaza and the Israelis confiscated it …

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    Comment #42552104

    Carter was the only president to call Israel what it is, an apartheid state.[0] Rest in peace. [0] https://youtube.com/shorts/y23V6PLTCMw

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    Comment #39657205

    The war's been at a stalemate for over a year with Ukraine having lost control of its eastern provinces in spite of receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in aid from "the West"…

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    Comment #39617806

    Just because "we" are from English-speaking countries doesn't mean "we" have the same "enemies", and the idea that people are assigned a list of enemies based on where they're born…

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    Comment #39396408

    I can’t wait for the day I can strap on my Apple® Vision Pro® 9 with OpenAI® integration and spend all my time interfacing ( wink ) with my virtual girlfriend. Sure my unlit 3 by 3…

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    Comment #39153655

    > I can certainly think of some other ethnicity in that region who had their land occupied and was cleansed from the region. And I can certainly think of some other ethnicity in th…

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    Comment #39153590

    > Any rational person of western ideology, that isn’t myopically viewing this as some oppressed/oppressor academic generalization, gets why Israel must act the way they are acting.…

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    Comment #39153337

    > Hamas is making that very difficult by blending in with the population, putting command centers under major hospitals and so on. If there's a command center under a hospital, the…

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    Comment #37413361

    Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress in March 2013 that the NSA did not collect data on millions of Americans, just three months(!) before Snowden and Gree…

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    Comment #36455340

    The point is that Fauci and the CDC lied to the public about the efficacy of masks, even if they lied with "good" intentions. They simply could've explained that supplies were low …

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    Comment #35329752

    I've been checking in on the Herculaneum scrolls every few months for years to see if any progress has been made reading them yet, so to see such a well orchestrated competition ar…

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    Comment #35262496

    > I'm dubious that the "Fed's money printer" had much of an effect on inflation. It certainly didn't cause the SVB or other banks to go under. The rate increases did that.. The rat…